Re: [O] proposal to have ignoreheading tags/properties

[Aaron Ecay]

Hi Nicolas,

2014ko ekainak 14an, Nicolas Goaziou-ek idatzi zuen:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Aaron Ecay <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I’m confused.  In the text, you say “promoted to the root level of the
>> tree”, which I expect to mean promotion to a top-level headline.  In the
>> example, though, H4 is promoted to second-level.  Do you mean “promoted
>> to the level of the highest dominating :noexport: headline”?  That seems
>> correct to me (but I have not thought about it extensively).
> 
> Exactly. I meant "promoted to the root of the :noexport: tree", which is
> basically what you describe.
> 
>> I think under your proposal it would be possible to add a single special
>> tag which is equivalent (by definition) to tagging a headline noexport
>> and all its children export.  This could be implemented as a parse tree
>> transformation adding the (no)export tags at an early stage in the export
>> code.
> 
> I'd rather not introduce more special tags, if possible.
> 
> I think that this feature should be implemented with :export:/:noexport:
> before we start pondering about the relevance of some syntactic sugar.

I understand your point about gradualism.

> 
> There are other ways to handle "same tag on all children", e.g., an
> interactive function.

I think a parse tree filter might work better, since then there is no
possibility of the tags inadvertently getting out of sync.  But either
way, it will be easy to implement based on the extension to (no)export
functionality you proposed.

Thanks,

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Aaron Ecay